On the social network X, Lazo, also president of the Council of State, sent congratulations to the South African people, Government, and Parliament on behalf of the island’s deputies and in his behalf.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry also sent in X congratulations to South Africa and ratified the will to continue strengthening the relations of friendship and brotherhood that unite both nations.
On April 27, 1994, South Africans voted in the first post-apartheid multiracial elections that gave victory to the African National Congress (ANC) which brought Nelson Mandela to power, the country’s first black president.
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